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TAMPA, Fla. – Back in the day, as Geno Auriemma would say, UConn's regular season always ended with a crescendo. There was Notre Dame, until the Irish left the Big East. Then there was Louisville, until the Cardinals bolted the American Athletic Conference, too. In their place now — and likely for the foreseeable future — is South Florida. Like its two closing-night predecessors, the Bulls are the next best thing in the league in which UConn operates now. But as it relates to UConn, competition has been a theoretical concept this season in the AAC. Let's put it this way: If the regular season was the 1973 Belmont, Auriemma would be Ron Turcotte, bobbing in the...

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TAMPA, Fla. – Back in the day, as Geno Auriemma would say, UConn's regular season always ended with a crescendo. There was Notre Dame, until the Irish left the Big East. Then there was Louisville, until the Cardinals bolted the American Athletic...

STORRS – It’s not a late night, and I don’t have an early flight. So let’s wrap up this UConn win over Tulane.
Home or away, wins are not easy in this American Conference. Tulane is scrappy, they haven’t packed it in for the season, as their recent win...

DALLAS — UConn stuck with the same starting lineup at SMU that it used against Tulsa on Thursday. Coach Kevin Ollie seems to like what he sees with Ryan Boatright, Terrence Samuel, Rodney Purvis, Daniel Hamilton and Amida Brimah on the floor...

MEMPHIS – Visitors are accustomed to hearing the blues in Memphis, but it usually doesn't extend to basketball."This is the toughest stretch for us," Memphis coach Josh Pastner said. "Other than the beginning of the season, when I over...

Now back in Moscow, busier than ever, Svetlana Abrosimova remains a social media maven. She checks in with the world as often as time allows.So it did not surprise her to learn that Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, the precocious three-point shooter from...

HARTFORD — In this humdrum world of American Athletic Conference basketball, there are few nights when the anticipation of history not only moves to center stage but moves the audience excited about its arrival.
Say what you will about UConn's...

ORLANDO, Fla. — UConn's spring semester started Tuesday and the women's basketball team boarded another plane, braced to live out of the suitcases that have served as the main fashion accessory in their lives the first two months of the season.
Off to...

HOUSTON – UConn has some company in this difficult season. If the Huskies are destined to play in the NIT – and after losing 70-68 at Houston on Sunday, they will have to improve to get there – they will find some familiar foes.
Syracuse, Michigan,...

It did not surprise Jamelle Elliott to hear that Geno Auriemma, her former coach and boss, would get his first chance to win his 900th game against Cincinnati, the team she has coached for six seasons. "The best part of playing a part in what...

On Tuesday against Cincinnati, Geno Auriemma will attempt to win his 900th game when he again faces Jamelle Elliott, his former player and assistant coach.
On Jan. 25, the Huskies blasted the Bearcats, 96-31, at Fifth Third Arena....

PHILADELPHIA — Watching UConn flatten East Carolina last week at the XL Center, the untrained eye could have concluded that all was well with the major brand name of women's college basketball.
As it turns out, that would have been a premature assumption...

CINCINNATI — Only a few weeks ago, on Dec. 18, UConn played well enough in a 10-point loss to Duke, at the time ranked second in the country, for coach Mike Krzyzewski to say that the Huskies "played like the championship program they are."The...

CINCINNATI – UConn-Cincinnati games are usually ugly, so was this one. The difference: This game was only ugly on one side. The Huskies didn’t show up, and or at least that’s what it looked like. And when a team is playing for its season...

CINCINNATI – If the Huskies’ season was on the line Thursday night, their performance doesn’t say much for what is left of their season.
UConn came to Cincinnati with no margin for error, and after a comedy of errors – 13 first-half turnovers, just for...

Every game is a learning experience, for those who play and those who watch. It may be time to change the title of this little feature to things we've un-learned about the Huskies after the UConn men's 70-58 loss at Cincinnati on Thursday. Because, as...

Moments before the start of Sunday's game at Cincinnati, Geno Auriemma looked into the stands behind his bench and waved to one of his all-time favorite players, a kid who willingly gave him more than he could possibly have expected during her career....

CINCINNATI – Looking out at Fifth Third Arena from our vantage point – which is horrible, by the way. The Huskies and Bearcats are both on the court shooting, that mich we can see. The student section is filled with white shirts for the “white...